The Dodgers’ Logan Forsythe crosses the plate after being driven in by Austin Barnes during the fifth inning of Game 2 of the NLDS on Saturday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

What? You thought the Dodgers were going to rid themselves of the Diamondbacks that easily? You thought that 9-5 Game 1 victory wasn’t just an opener but also an omen?

Arizona proved otherwise immediately in Game 2, Goldschmidt’s first-inning homer off Rich Hill giving the Diamondbacks their initial lead of this National League Division Series.

Just three innings later, of course, the lead was just like that home run – long gone – the Dodgers rallying in the manner of a team that, in the regular season, won 104 games, 47 via comeback.

They eventually won this one, 8-5, and now have led for 15 of the 18 innings they’ve played so far against Arizona, this matchup suddenly one step from a sweep.

“We’ve got to stay focused and compete and try to close the series out,” reliever Kenley Jansen said. “That’s what we have to go do.”

They bounced back this time against Robbie Ray, the Arizona starter who had all the recent success – 3-0 with a 2.27 ERA in five 2017 starts – against them, and if you’re going to come back, why not do so in the most dramatic way possible?

After beating Colorado in the NL wild-card game, the Diamondbacks emerged as a popular pick to upset the Dodgers in this series, in part because Arizona won 11 of the 19 games between the teams in the regular season.

The Diamondbacks also won the final six meetings, three games coming in August and three in September.

Naturally, once the playoffs start, the regular season matters about as much as flip-flops do to a penguin, August and September distant calendar pages long since turned.

Still, Forbes magazine called the Diamondbacks “the one matchup the Dodgers didn’t want to see this early in the postseason,” which might be accurate, though it’s not like they had a choice. The Padres, you know, weren’t eligible.

Three writers at the venerable Washington Post picked Arizona, too. But what do those guys know? The last time a team from Washington D.C. won the World Series prohibition was still in place.

We here at the Southern California News Group projected the Dodgers to win in five games, as did the Los Angeles Times.

So, when it comes to trusting who will get the story right, always rely on the people whose lives will be most inconvenienced by their predictions coming true.

Now, however, would be an excellent time to remember that, if necessary, there’s a chance the Diamondbacks might cheat to win this series.

One of their coaches, Ariel Prieto, was caught in the wild-card game wearing an Apple Watch, which can be used to communicate vital information like what pitch is coming next.

Prieto explained that his watch couldn’t have been used for purposes of espionage since it had been in airplane mode during the game. Why didn’t anyone on the 1919 Black Sox think of that excuse?

Baseball investigated the situation and cleared Prieto and the Diamondbacks of any wrongdoing, closing the case.

Yet, with so much riding on this series, there’s still this strange, inescapable thought that Fernando Rodney’s cap might not be the only thing crooked about Arizona’s baseball team.

These guys are the snakes, after all, and is there a more sinister creature on Earth?

I also find it amazing that Apple can produce a device sophisticated enough to win a Major League Baseball game and still, at the first hint of sweat while working out, my iPod seizes up worse than a Popsicle.

The most popular story surrounding the Dodgers this postseason is the immense pressure they are facing to win the World Series, something this franchise hasn’t done in 29 years.

We in the media have remained resolute in our commitment to ensuring that the Dodgers’ every waking moment is stuffed with the threat of what failure now would mean.

Somewhat incredibly, before this series began, Manager Dave Roberts insisted he and the players want to win, perhaps even more so than the fans want them to win and the media insist that they do.

“I just think that, speaking for the guys in the clubhouse,” Roberts said, “we have more expectations for ourselves than I think anyone could put on us.”

Still, their burden is made heavier, the story continues, because, for the first time since 1974, the Dodgers finished with the best regular-season record in baseball.

Well, in 2014, the Angels had baseball’s best record and immediately were swept by the wild-card Royals, hitting .170 in three straight losses, during which they led – 1-0 – for an entire half-inning.

Of course, to be fair, these Dodgers don’t have Josh Hamilton, who went 0 for 13 in the ’14 playoffs.

That division series was nothing but adversity for the local team. This one? The Dodgers encountered their first taste of the stuff in Game 2, adversity in the form of an appetizer.

So far, all’s well for the team shouldering the pressure, the Dodgers handling their Game 2 adversity most expertly, by any measure.

Jeff Miller has been a sports columnist since 1998, having previously written for the Palm Beach Post, South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald. He began at the Register in 1995 as beat writer for the Angels.

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